Hey developers,
Happy (almost) summer break!
I’m UrDailyNews, and I’ve been a developer on the Roblox platform for almost five years, and I’ve focused on 3D modeling/building and GFX.
The thing is, I feel like I’m simply limited by the inability to script.
I’ve got all the time in the world this summer, and I’d love to begin/pick up the ability to script and take my abilities in development to a whole new level.
I’ve briefly attempted to learn scripting in the past, but either haven’t had the time to continue or the motivation.
Additionally, is it possible to pick up scripting as a partially dyslexic person, who is trash at math?
Scripters, what are your suggestions for someone who has a very VERY beginner level/idea of scripting with slight dyslexia?
Thanks!
I would recommend watching roblox scripting tutorials such as Alvinblox,GnomeCode and etc.Not knowing beyond basic math in scripting doesnt necessarily make you incapable of scripting a game but it will limit you if you want to script complex and beyond average things with the use of advanced formulas.For motivation try scripting mini projects or scripting a single task such as a leaderboard.
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Awesome, thank you.
I believe I did watch a few videos by Alvinblox and possibly GnomeCode, and they seemed easy to follow.
I’ll say start of with a tutorial that teaches you about the language. Not the “Read to Learn”. Its much preferred to find tutorials that give hands-on experience. Its a lot better as generally, humans learn quicker and remember faster.
(Keep in mind that Raw Lua and Luau are slightly different but still roughy same)
Once you know the basic of Lua, I’ll recommend doing small projects. It can be as simple changing brick color upon wait time. This can help you learn what works and not works. Don’t try to do hard projects as that can be very frustrating and overwhelming for Beginner Scripters.
And with that, just slowly start doing tougher projects related to scripting. Also Discipline yourself will be important. And what I mean by that is you are going to need to force yourself to learn. If you rely on motivation, it’ll be very difficult to learn the skill you want.
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Actually scripting is very easy, but in my opinion it is quite difficult to teach, so that’s why it’s difficult to find a good video tutorial on how to learn. I was in the same situation as you, but then after watching a good video I managed to learn quite well. But let’s say that in a tutorial there can’t be everything you need, because there are too many things to say, that you can learn simply by searching individually. I suggest you watch the RoDev tutorial, I learned from there.
I hope my answer was useful to you and I’m sure that one day you will be able to learn scripting : D
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I’ll recommend watching any videos on Roblox scripting, such as “How to script a door?”, “How to make the character vanish? (SCRIPT)” and more. With this kind of video, maybe you can learn something and try to be inspired by it.
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